Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy

by Wallis R. Sanborn

The works of Cormac McCarthy have been critically studied as literature of the South and of the Border Southwest. Largely ignored is the omnipresence and presentation of animals in McCarthy's works. Yet the abundant representations of animals depict a part of the ceaseless battle for survival that is inherent in many of his writings.

McCarthy's animals exist within the framework of a fictional natural world driven by biological determinism:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786423803
• ISBN13: 9780786423804
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher